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By: N/A
Price: $350.00
Publisher: London, Ernest Nister: N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1012J2
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket; Some scuffing and rubbing to front and rear boards, not affecting picture. Bumping to corners. Gift inscription on front flyleaf: "To Tustins [?] With much Love and best wishes for a Merry Christmas. From Grandma -- Paris -- 1908." Later owner's name on front paste-down.
Inv. #1012J2. (EN # 2059) Chromolithograph of Little Red Riding Hood on cover; chromolithograph of "There was a Little Man frontispiece. All other illustrations black & white. This is one of Nister's famous children's books, printed in Bavaria on good paper. Published by Nister in London and E.P. Dutton in New York.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall View more info
By: N/A
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Phila., PA, Henry Altemus Company: 1904
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 453D
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Inv. #453D. Cloth with illustration of pig treed by wolf on cover. Front flyleaf torn at outer edge, not affecting illustration. ; Forty Illustrations in color; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 96 pages View more info
By: N/A
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: D.C., Bureau of National Literature: 1912
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 1172B
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Inv. #1172B. Eleven volumes. Bound in 3/4 leather over marbled boards, gilt decorations and lettering on spine. President's seal on front boards. Teg. Outstanding condition. Volume X of this set continues through the presidency of William Howard Taft and has the important eleventh volume, The Index to all of the previous volumes. ; 8vo; 8145 + Index pages; Beginning with Volume I, the formation of the government, and the Presidency of George Washington, through Volume X, the presidency of William Howard Taft, in 1912, the documents of each of the presidents are offered. Volume XI, The In... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $475.00
Publisher: London & New York, the London Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd.:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: P-070120B
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # 070120B. Full light brown leather designed to appear 3/4 with large gold-stamped portrait of Shakespeare on front boards. All edges gilt. The work "compris[es] the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet. Engraved in the highest style of art, from drawings by eminent artists. With letterpress extracts from the text, in English and French; and critical essays on each of the characters." The book is close in looks to Inventory # P-070120A, The Complete Works of Shakspeare, and was published by the same company around the same time, mid 19th Century. It wou... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay: 1934
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: P-041122
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
#P-041122. Black cloth, with silver illustrated cover. ; B&W Illustration s; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 135 pages View more info
By: Arnold, Sir Edwin (Pogany, Willy, Illus.)
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay: 1932
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: V-050710
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # V-050710. Black cloth with silver cover and illustration by Pogany.; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall View more info
By: Barrie, James M. (Rackham, Arthur, Illus.)
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1908
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: RW050910
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # RW050910. Green cloth cover with illustration of Peter Pan riding a goat gold-stamped on front cover. Gold stamped title on front cover and spine. Fifty-one tipped-in color illustrations by Rackham, consisting of frontis plus 50 numbered illustrations. All tipped-in illustrations are mounted on thick brown paper at end of text, with titles of illustrations on tissue guards.; Color Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall View more info
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Phila., PA, David McKay: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1293
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Inv. #1293. Burton, a British explorer & orientalist, used the pseudonym Haji Abdu El Yezdi, for this work of visionary poetry that he created. Introduction by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, The black hardcover binding has a splendid image of one of Pogany's illustrations surrounded by a silver border. The Pogany designs are quite erotic and fanciful. Handsome copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; Signed by Illustrator View more info
By: Caniff, Milton
Price: $550.00
Publisher: Chicago, IL., Pleasure Books, Inc.: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: V-051010
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # V-051010. Illustrated cardboard cover. This book was one of many pop-up books published by Pleasure Books of Chicago, which trade-marked the term "Pop-Up," and most of which were based on popular cartoon characters. The book contains three pop-ups in color, all of which work, and many black-and white illustrations by Caniff. ; Pop-Up; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis
Price: $385.00
Publisher: NY, E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1929
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: P-040731
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Purple cloth cover with gold-stamped illustration of Alice and the White Rabbit on front. Colored endpapers featuring scenes from the book. Pogany's delightful black-and-white line illustrations present Alice as a definite child of the '20's, including bobbed hair and a mid-thigh length checked skirt, knee sox, and a "sailor" blouse.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 192 pages View more info
By: Catullus (Burton & Smithers, Tr.)
Price: $350.00
Publisher: NY, Privately Printed: 1928
Edition: Limited/Numbered Edition
Seller ID: 1381B
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
#1381B. No. 375 0f 750 copies. Brown cloth boards with tan buckram spine. Publisher's black leather label on spine. Top edge stained brown, all other edges untrimmed. "The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, Completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, and the Prose Portion, Introduction and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers; Including the Latin Text of Catullus." Privately printed for subscribers only. With 8 full page plates.; Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, Aspen Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 4147B-26
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Inv. #4147B-26. First edition of this classic Sherlockian pastiche featuring Holmes and Lord Greystoke (aka Tarzan) battling German agent Von Bork (of "His Last Bow") in Africa in 1916. Farmer was the "American Agent for the Estates of Dr. Watson, Lord Greystoke, David Copperfield, Martin Eden, and Don Quixote." An exceptional copy of this important book that will appeal to collectors of Sherlockiana, Tarzaniana, Farmer, and Science Fiction.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; viii, 111 pages View more info
Price: $2,250.00
Publisher: Milwaukee, Casanova Press: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1023D
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. #1023D. One of 525 numbered copies. Includes "Ultimately," a poem by Ernest Hemingway, on the back outside cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Faulkner. These short pieces, with one exception, first appeared in the Double Dealer Magazine.Fine in publisher's original tan thick paper wrappers, title printed in red and black on front cover. Publisher's slipcase slightly worn.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall View more info
Price: $950.00
Publisher: London, The Lane Publications: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: V-060122
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # V-060122. Pop-Up book with 6 intact, fully operational pop-ups. The Daily Express produced one of these Annuals each year for several years in the early '30's. They boasted that "All the Coloured Pictures rise up in model form" because they could not call the pictures pop-ups as that term was trademarked by Blue Ribbon Books in the United States for its books. The spine is newly laid down, but the front and rear boards are intact. ; Pop-Up; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Price: $550.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1908
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: V-040706
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket; Pasted-in excerpt from poem "Life of Goethe" on Front Paste-down. Gift Inscription on Flyleaf.
Inv. #V-040706. Red cloth with gilt titles on Front Board and Spine. Translated by Abraham Hayward. Thirty color illustrations by Pogany, along with numerous black and white drawings.; Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Translated by Abraham Hayward View more info
Price: $2,500.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1952
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 1226J
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
Inv. #1226J. First Edition, first printing with an "A" on the copyright. Bound in 3/4 maroon morocco over marbled boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Five bands on spine with title and elaborate decorations in gilt. View more info
By: James, Henry
Price: $375.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1949
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1291E
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # 1291E. Bound in full blue leather by Bayntun of Bath, with marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Elaborate gilt decorations on spine. Stated first edition. Edited by Leon Edel. Illustrated with photgraphs. ; 8vo View more info
Price: $420.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1177E
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # 1177E. 2volumes, 3/4 red leather over marbled boards and endpapers. T.E.G. Root was Teddy Roosevelt's second secretary of state, as well as a secretary of war and a senator from New York. The book is ex-library. ; 8vo View more info
By: Lentz, Harold B.
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1932
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 1483
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Inv. # 1483. Pop-Up book with 4 pop-ups, stiff cardboard pages and extremely rare intact dust jacket repeating design on boards. Full-color illustration of Jack the Giant Killer on front boards, and dragon on rear boards. Contains four stories, with one pop-up illustration per story: "Jack the Giant Killer", "Jack and the Bean-Stalk", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Sleeping Beauty". All four pop-ups are intact and in working order. An exceptional find in this condition, with Dust Jacket. ; Pop-Up; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages View more info
By: Longus
Price: $300.00
Publisher: London, Geoffrey Bles: 1925
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 1381E
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
#1381E. Linen cloth. Top pages trimmed, all others untrimmed. Translated from the Greek of Longus by George Thornley in 1657. Decorations by John Austen.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 200 pages View more info
